Machine for manufacturing glassware.



No. 731,885. PATENTED JUNE 23, 1903.

J. F. GEGBNHEIMERL MACHINE FOR MANUFACTURING GLASSWARE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 1a, 1902.

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PATENTED JUNE 23, 1903.

LI. GEGENHEIMER. MACHINE FOR MANUFACTURING GLASSWARE.

'APPLIOATION FILED JULY 16. 190.2. no MODEL.

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Patented June 23, 1903.

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JOHN F. GEGENIIEIM'ER, or e AssBoRo, NEW JERSEY.

MACHINE FOR MANUFACTURING GLASSWARE.

HPEGIFICATIGN formingpart of Letters Patent No. 7 31,885, dated June 23,1963. Application filed July 16; 1902. Serial No. 115,770. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known thatI, JOHN F. GEGENHEIMER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Glass boro, in the county of Gloucester and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Manufacturing Glassware, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to machines for the manufacture of wide and narrow neck jars, bottles, and other glass articles, and the primary object thereof is to simplifyand im prove that type of machine wherein the blank is first pressed in a portable mold to form the neck of the article and then transferred to a blow-mold for completingthe same by suitable automatic blowing mechanism.

The invention embodies vertically fixedj pressing and blowing mechanisms, which oooperate with uneans for raising the molds thereto for effecting the pressing and blowing operations. p i Further, theinvention embodies apresserhead ofimproved form for holding the neckmold during the pressing operation, sliding supports for the press-molds, whereby they piss may be more conveniently reachedfor depositing the molten glass therein, and laterally-swinging supports for the blowing mechanism, whereby the same may be moved to one side and out of the way for removing the finished article from the-blow-mold.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section,of a ma chine constructed in accordance with my invention, oneof the press-molds being shown raised to pressing position. Fig. 2 is a vertical crosssectional view on line22 of Fig. 3, showing both the press and blow molds in section and raised to operative position. Fig. 3 is a plan view. Fig. 4 is a view of opposite press and blow moldssimilar to those shown in Fig. 2, the molds being lowered to position on the table. Fig. 5 is a detailed view of a portion of the pressing-head which holds the neck-mold during the pressing operation.

Referring to the drawings, 2 designates the upright portion of the machine-frame, 3 the floor-wheels upon which the same is mounted, and 4 the top or table. From opposite ends of thistable risethestandards 5, which support at their upper ends the transverse bar operating-handles 17. the side adjacent the blowing apparatus, as

central openings, through which the plunger projects,and plate 12 is suspended from plate by bolts 14., which are freely movable there- .through, with springs on the bolts intermediate plates 10 and 12 for resisting upward movementof the latter. The lowermost 'plate 13 is suspended on bolts 16, which move freely through plates 12 and 10.

17'is a sectional neck-mold adapted to be positioned between plates 12 and 13 and held properlycentered on the latter by radiallyadjustable guides 18, the sections of said mold being hinged together, as usual, and having Plate 13 is open on indicated at 13, whereby the mold carrying the pressed blank may be removed from the pressing-head and placed in position-for blowing, as will be presently described.

19 is the press-mold, adapted to seat in the open-bottom slide 20, said slide being movable in depression 4 in table 4:, whereby the mold may be drawn to the table edge for receiving a fresh charge of glass. Movable vertically through the table and slide and adapted to engage the bottom of mold 19 and form asupport thereforis lifting-bar 21, provided at its lower end with rack 21', and meshing therewith is gear'wheel 22 on shaft 23, the latter being journaled in bearingposts 24, rising from horizontal plate 25 in frame 2 and carrying the operating-lever 26, movable in table-slot 26, whereby when saidshaft is oscillated bar 21 is moved vertically and with it mold 19, the bar being guided by plate 25 and cross-bar 27. The press-mold forms a tight union withthe under side of neck-mold 17, and upward movement of the latter being resisted by springplate 12 hearing thereagainst the molds are held tightly together while moving upward around plunger 8, thus preventing the glass from being forced therebetwcen during the operation of pressing the neck of the article.

from beam 6.

Upon completion thereof the press-mold is lowered to its slide 20, leaving the pressed blank suspended in the neck-mold, as shown in the center of Fig. ,1.

At the side of table 4 opposite the pressmolds are blow-molds 28, and presser-head plates 13 being open toward the blow-molds at 13 the neck-molds carrying the pressed blanks may be readily withdrawn from the presser-heads and positioned on the blowmolds. The latter are each formed of hinged sections having the usual operating-handles 28. The mold-bottom 29 is adapted to seat in the vertically-apertured slide 30in table-top depression 4 and over a vertical opening through which operates the liftingbar 31, adapted at its upper end to engage the mold-bottom and at its lower end provided with the oppositely-extending treadles 32 and 33, fulcrumed on hangers 32 and 33, respectively, depending from frame-plate 25. By this means the blow-mold carrying the neck-mold and pressed blank may be elevated from either side of the machine for the blowing operation. Lifting-bars 31 extend through and are guided by the frame crossbar 34 and horizontal plate 25.

The blowing mechanism consists of threaded pipe 35, adjustable vertically through bracket 36 by means of nuts 35' and 35, the bracket being secured to and projecting laterally Asection of hose 37 connects the upper end of pipe 35 with manifold 38, to which air under pressure maybe supplied from any suitable source.

The blowing-head consists of plate 39, adjustably held on threaded pipe 35by nuts 39 and 39, and neck-mold cover 40, which is movable vertically over the lower end of the blowpipe, said cover carrying upwardlyextending bolts 41, movable freely through plate 39, with springs 42, confined on the bolts between plate 39 and cover 40, for resisting upward movement of the latter.

With the blank-carrying neck-mold in position on the blow-mold the latter is raised in the manner above described, forcing upward mold-cover 40, which closely fits the upper face of the neck-mold and is held in tight engagementtherewith by springs 42,.thereby effecting an air-tight union. Movable vertically with mold-cover 40 is link 43, pivoted thereto at its lower end and at its upper end pivotally connected to operating-stem 44 of blowpipe-valve 45, whereby the air is turned on automatically for the blowing operation and shut off when the mold is lowered at the completion thereof.

With the press and blow molds slidable toward the outer edges of the table they are within easy reach of the operators, and when the slide-carrying molds are moved back as far as possible they are accurately positioned and centered for the pressing and blowing operations, and while the taking out boy on the blowing side of the machine is trans ferring a neck mold and its pressed blank from a pressing-head to a blow-mold and effecting the blowing operation, as above described, a fresh blank is being pressed, the independent pressing and blowing mechanism permitting of a practically continuous operation. stricted as regards the number of such mechanisms on a single machine, I prefer to provide the same with three press-molds and four blow-molds, which will permit of rapid work without any of the molds becoming overheated.

I claim 1. The combination of a support, laterallyadjacentseries of pressingand blowing mechanisms,thepressingmechanismsbeingspaced apart and the blowing mechanisms spaced apart and opposite the intervals between the pressing mechanisms, whereby between adjacent blowing mechanisms access may be had to a pressing mechanism, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a press-mold, a plunger, a neck-mold, and a laterally-open vertically-movable presser-head adapted to form a support for the neck-mold, substantially as described.

3. The combination of a press mold, a plunger, a vertically-movable presserhead having two horizontal members arranged one above the other and movable toward each WVhile the invention is not reother and having openings through which the mold, a slotted table, a mold-lifting bar movable through the table and carrying a rack, a gear-wheel journaled beneath the table and meshing with the rack, and an actuating-lever adapted to move in the table -slot when oscillating the gearwheel, substantially as.

described.

6. The combination of a blow-mold, a blowpipe, a valve in the pipe, a blowing-head at the extremity of the pipe and movable thereon, and link 43 outside the pipe and blowhead and operatively connecting the latter and said valve, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN F. GEGENHEIMER.

Witnesses:

HARRY HEELER, CHARLES DERAULT.

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